? Although evidence of the 1933/2 overdate half penny has existed for quite some time, it is only recently that the coin has been accepted in numismatic circles. In 1933 the treasury requested 4.6 million half pennies be produced but the Melbourne mint neither had enough dies on hand nor enough time to produce them. Consequently, like they did with the penny that year, they overdated dies. Final digits of the date of a 1933/2 Overdate half penny ...
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? The 1887 half sovereigns come in a number of varieties distinguishable by the place of manufacture which can be Sydney, Melbourne or London and by the positioning of the obverse designer's initials, JEB. The mint can be determined by a mintmark , or absence of underneath the shield on the reverse. An S indicates this issue, the Sydney mint, an M indicates Melbourne while the London mint issues do not display a mintmark. S mintmark for Sydney ...
? In 1711 the Dutch East India Company dispatched the trading ship Zuytdorp to Batavia , the capital of the Dutch East Indies. The ship was lost on its journey and its fate was unknown until the wreck was discovered off the West Coast of Australia. Among the wreckage was found a horde of silver coins marked with the date 1711. The Royal Australian Mint has released this one dollar piece as an interesting historical piece commemorating a century since the Zuytdorp vanished. ...
? The Half Cent series was struck, much like the other copper issues starting in 1872 at the Heaton mint in Birmingham with a large initial mintage of 5.6 million to satisfy the initial demand for smaller circulating currency for the newly founded colony. The issue features a partitioned circular reverse with the legend STRAITS SETTLEMENTS HALF CENT in the outer edge followed by the date and 1/2 in the middle and an obverse with the effigy of Queen Victoria facing to the left and the legend ...